Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
Tennessee Williams

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
Alice Walker

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
Leonardo da Vinci

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
Mark Twain

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
Arthur Schopenhauer

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
David Sarnoff

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
William Penn

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
Edvard Munch

A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.
Thomas Mann

Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit."
Bill Maher

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
Helen Keller

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
Kahlil Gibran

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
Euripides

Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
Erik H. Erikson

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we live in a city without walls.
Epicurus

Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.
Henry Van Dyke

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
Willa Cather

'Tis very certain the desire of life
  Prolongs it this is obvious to physician.
When patients neither plagued with friends nor wife,
  Survive through very desperate conditions,
Because they still can hope nor shines the knife
  Nor shears of Átropos before their visions :
Despair of all recovery spoils longevity,
  And makes men's miseries of alarming brevity. 
Lord Byron

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
Buddha

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
Francis Bacon

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.
Stewart Alsop

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.
Gilda Radner

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.
Isaac Asimov

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Winston Churchill

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.
(Pope Paul VI) Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini (September 26, 1897 – August 6, 1978)

The good die young - because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good
John Barrymore

And the only thing all this has told me, along with my own experiences with cancer patients and my heath conditions, is that I cannot condem the man for wanting to die.
Just as I cannot encourage his actions to rush headlong into taking his own life.
I am still at a loss for words to exchange with Mikey.